Why can't batteries be thrown in the trash?

Do not throw batteries in the trashNo! No! No! ! ! ! It’s very small, compact, and we think it doesn’t matter to throw batteries in the trash… A mistake! A gross mistake!

While 500 million batteries were purchased in just a few weeks for devices given at Christmas, you must remember how toxic they are! The excessive consumption of batteries in France is a plague. In every family, 13 batteries remain at the bottom of a drawer and are never used. This number increases every year with the advent of connected products that no longer use batteries. Here’s how to dispose of and recycle them !

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Phone batteries, tablets should also be recycled in appropriate containers. Batteries are recycled at 80%. In a battery, we recover steel, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and some heavy metals it contains. Recovering them does not pollute, but contributes to the non-polluting extraction of these metals in Asia or Africa. These extractions are sometimes carried out by children exposed to the dangers of these toxic metals. When you throw a battery in the trash, it ends up in the household waste incinerator . It then pollutes the air with its fumes and groundwater by melting these toxic metals.

Once the batteries are used, set up a small box in the corner of the drawer and collect the batteries. Then, leave them ABSOLUTELY in bins located after the tills of most supermarkets, in the trash, or at any collection point. Only 50% of used batteries are currently recycled, there is still a lot of effort to be made by everyone so that batteries no longer pollute the Earth, right?